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...acting on dopamine receptors, varenicline also may change the way some people experience joy. Last year, the writer Derek de Koff (who was a longtime smoker and also - full disclosure - an acquaintance of mine) wrote a harrowing New York magazine account of his experience with varenicline. He experienced awful hallucinations while taking the drug - he wrote about speaking to a man in a bar who turned out to be a shadow cast by a potted plant. De Koff also became despondent. "I wondered whether [varenicline] was zapping my brain's pleasure-delivery system to such a degree that not only...
...Corbu Pops” defies boundaries. “Artists like to give their talks the shape of a liquid, pour them into a container, to ‘fill,’” said Pope.L in a talk before the performance. “Mine either spill over or peter out.” If the same metaphor is applied to the effect “Corbu Pops” had, the performance splashed the container off the table. Placed in a corner of the Carpenter Center lobby, the set was a large and angled board painted...
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...shock of seeing a small boy holding his hand. It’s easy to forget a man’s a father when he’s already a veteran and widower.“Marshall!” I said, taking his hand before he took mine.“Miss Moore.”“It’s good, it’s very good to see you!”“Good morning, Major Pellet,” said Mrs. Graham. Her voice had slammed the Major as she glanced...
...shores—in the very first poem in the collection “These Trees.” After the narrator has left, the trees will still be there just as they always have been, and her emotions “will have been / just that / mine.” Her locations are timeless, though she and her loved ones may not be.“Clark Park,” the poem from which the collection gets its title, combines meditations on people with ones on places. Clark Park itself is filled with trees whose...